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Late fall and winter is the best time to hike a mountain trail, especially when the sun breaks through as you approach the summit. This view is about a minute from the top of Mount Erskine on Salt Spring Island.

The Salt Spring Photo of the Day has been to Erskine before. By entering “erskine” in the search box you find six other posts.

Cameron, the wonder Westie and I usually take the slow easy way up and the more direct, but steeper way down.

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starting today this website is on autopilot for a couple of weeks while our family takes a vacation

This is a view I hadn’t seen before today. I’m guessing that’s true for a lot of people.

While riding shotgun with Phil from SaltSpring Air I couldn’t place this mountain lake. I mean it’s a big lake only a few seconds away (at 100 mph) from Mount Erskine. And it’s obviously on fairly flat terrain but seemingly perched near a huge drop-off to the ocean. Then it dawned on me that the farm in the foreground must be Foxglove Farm…on the mostly steep and lumpy road to…Mount Maxwell.

Mount Maxwell Lake is home to the best piped water on Salt Spring Island. Although it’s a protected watershed located on private property, I hear it’s frequented by swimmers, sometimes sans swimsuits. Don’t know. Never been there.

This tree is rooted just a couple of feet from a 600 foot cliff face.
Perhaps that’s why it’s trying to get to a more comfortable spot.
On Mount Erskine looking southwest towards Maple Bay and Duncan on Vancouver Island.

They don’t seem to understand that when building a new home, a few trees may have to come down. Did for my house and, I’m willing to bet did for your house too.

On the other hand, this area, very near the beautiful Mt. Erskine trails off Collins Road, seems a bit more than excessively deforested.

I just don’t get it.

Musings:
Thanks to the woman who volunteered to give some scale to this photo.

Normally I try to stay on the half-full side of things for the daily Salt Spring Island photo. Perhaps to a fault. So, when travelling by, half an hour after sunset, I couldn’t resist the challenge of capturing this image. Thanks to Dan for pointing out that the clearcut is clearly visible from the 300 block of Elizabeth Drive.